From 5b42bdca90986be35a90c555ff60543fd47504aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "pierre-francois.duc" <pierre-francois.duc@rl-institut.de>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2024 16:23:24 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Prevent load from excel to throw error if new attribute not
 present

---
 ramp/core/core.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ramp/core/core.py b/ramp/core/core.py
index 8ea65739..3cf3d824 100644
--- a/ramp/core/core.py
+++ b/ramp/core/core.py
@@ -584,7 +584,10 @@ def load(self, filename: str) -> None:
                 :, ~user_df.columns.isin(["user_name", "num_users", "user_preference"])
             ].to_dict(orient="records"):
                 # assign Appliance arguments
-                appliance_parameters = {k: row[k] for k in APPLIANCE_ARGS}
+                appliance_parameters = {}
+                for k in APPLIANCE_ARGS:
+                    if k in row:
+                        appliance_parameters[k] = row[k]
 
                 # assign windows arguments
                 for k in WINDOWS_PARAMETERS: